Sports List: Inspirations for Rice’s Tudor Fieldhouse

Six venues whose designs were used as inspirations for Tudor Fieldhouse at Rice and something you may not have known about each one:

• Maples Pavilion: The floor at Stanford was once changed to remove the “missed stair sensation,” which had players thinking they landed higher or lower than the level they had jumped from.

• Cameron Indoor Stadium: According to the Encyclopedia of Duke Basketball, Duke’s Cameron Crazies fan section only picked up steam in the mid-1980s, a lot later than people think, given how boisterous they are.

• Gallagher-Iba Arena: The venue at Oklahoma State is known as “The Madison Square Garden of the Plains.”